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Blog Entries about "car repair"

• More power to your elbow

  Thursday, May 20 2010 :: 0 comments

  According to ASE (incorporating Trevor Jones), the average overall labour efficiency of dealers' service departments fell from 83% in 2008 to 80% in 2009. Our own data record a similar fall and you have to go back more than a decade to find service labour efficiencies regularly exceeding 100%. Bodyshops, too, have seen overall labour efficiencies declining over time.

• DIY job card analysis

  Tuesday, February 16 2010 :: 0 comments

  Analysing job cards is an essential research tool for our reports on the market for servicing and repairs. It is the simplest way of deriving the average values of jobs and revealing the strengths and weaknesses of the two principal market suppliers - franchised and independent. The method, albeit arduous and boring, is relatively straightforward and it's the kind of research any franchised workshop or independent garage can do for themselves.

• Nineteenth Motor Trader Industry Awards 2009

  Friday, July 10 2009 :: 0 comments

  Trend Tracker director, Chris Oakham, was amongst 830 people at the Motor Trader Industry Awards 2009 held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London yesterday evening, 8 July. The 19th Motor Trader Industry Awards celebrated the achievements of companies and individuals challenging the worst recession in the UK retail motor industry since the early 90s - and succeeding. Trend Tracker would like to add their congratulations to the winners of the 18 categories:

• New data on the German aftermarket from Trend Tracker partner

  Monday, September 22 2008 :: 1 comment

  Later this autumn Trend Tracker expects to be able to offer UK customers an unrivalled new report on the European aftermarket, published by our German colleagues at Wolk & Partner following a very extensive research programme. As soon as we have more information, we'll let you know full details.

• Pre-publication offer on The Castrol Professional Car Service & Repair Trend Tracker 2008

  Tuesday, August 05 2008 :: 0 comments

  The latest addition on our Reports page offers advance information on The Castrol Professional Car Service & Repair Trend Tracker 2008 report. Due for publication in October, this report can now be ordered at an 'earlybird' saving of £225 off the published price of £1,250 plus VAT. While we're grateful for Castrol's sponsorship which continues a long association with Trend Tracker, this latest report represents a major development of an established series. To see why we feel justified in believing this report will be THE definitive UK automotive aftersales market study, go to the Reports page on this site

• Tips on car paint care

  Wednesday, July 09 2008 :: 0 comments

  Wisdom has it that the Web works best if live links lead browsers to information sources they may not have suspected existed, and in that spirit, links to this site and others appear on a consumer motoring site which has recently offered tips on caring for the paint on your car - at http://www.cararticles.co.uk/uk-car-paint-care-tips.html